Ezequiel 30:3

3 'Porque cerca está el día, sí, está cerca el día del SEÑOR; día de nubarrones, la hora de las naciones.

Ezequiel 30:3 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 30:3

For the day is near
The day of Egypt's destruction, the time fixed for it: even the day of the Lord is near;
the day appointed by him, and in which he would make himself known by the judgments he executed: Kimchi observes, that, the same year this prophecy was delivered, Egypt was given into the hands of the king of Babylon: a cloudy day;
or; "a day of cloud" ^F5; which was seldom seen in Egypt in a literal sense, rarely having any rain, their country being watered by the Nile; but now, in a figurative sense, the clouds would gather thick and black, and threaten with a horrible tempest of divine wrath, and of ruin and destruction: it shall be the time of the Heathen:
both when the Heathen nation of the Chaldeans should distress and conquer others; and when Heathen nations, as the Egyptians, Ethiopians, and others, should be destroyed by them. The Targum is,

``it shall be the time of the breaking or destruction of the people.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 (Nne Mwy) "dies nubis", V. L. Pagniaus, Montanus, Cocceius, Starckius.

Ezequiel 30:3 In-Context

1 Y vino a mí la palabra del SEÑOR, diciendo:

2 Hijo de hombre, profetiza y di: "Así dice el Señor DIOS: "Gemid: "¡Ay de aquel día!"

3 'Porque cerca está el día, sí, está cerca el día del SEÑOR; día de nubarrones, la hora de las naciones.

4 'La espada vendrá sobre Egipto y habrá angustia en Etiopía, cuando caigan traspasados en Egipto, se lleven sus riquezas y sean derribados sus cimientos.

5 'Etiopía, Put, Lud, toda Arabia, Libia, y el pueblo de la tierra en alianza caerán a espada con ellos.'